April Adamson
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April Adamson
@aadamson.bsky.social
Grandma, reader, bird lover, north-central Washington state, vote blue 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🐶🐻🦅🐱
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Bullseye from 60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi in response to Bari Weiss: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
Snapshot: Rejecting the Regime's 'Kill Switch'
CBS News' Bari Weiss blocked a rigorous '60 Minutes' story about the brutal CECOT prison. This is not tolerable.
www.americaamerica.news
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Holy shit!
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Travel writer and TV host Rick Steves said he takes the verse ‘"ove thy neighbor" seriously and paid more than $2 million to save the facility in Washington state. https://wapo.st/4qw3IkN
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Call your senators and congressman and demand a wealth tax, and confiscatory top marginal rates on both income and capital gains.

Why should people making less than $200K have to pay income tax + employee contribution to payroll tax + their employer contribution to payroll tax while Musk pays $0?
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Washington and Oregon are bracing for major flooding and possible evacuations as an atmospheric river event brings heavy rainfall to an already saturated region.
Pacific Northwest under flood alerts as atmospheric river brings heavy rain
The Skagit River is predicted to crest at more than 47 feet near the town of Concrete, north of Seattle, on Friday.
nbcnews.to
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging.

In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease.

There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.

Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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imagine saying this in public to the guy who fucked your business up in the first place.
random farmer to Trump on what his child said to him: "He said, 'Daddy, I don't want Santa Claus to come to our house for Christmas, I want President Trump.' I think you brought Christmas to farmers with this bridge payment."
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Nov 25
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
wapo.st/4oWpkq2 I’m just leaving this here. Gifted article.
The top 20 billionaires influencing American politics
The group has spent nearly $5 billion on elections since 2015.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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2020 footage said to be in 2025. A scene of protestors in Illinois, suggested as Portland.

We reviewed Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland.

Here's how Fox News told a misleading story:
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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“Organizers, including prominent liberal groups like MoveOn, said more than 2,500 rallies and events were taking place nationwide and predicted the turnout would surpass the estimated five million people that participated in the first day of No Kings rallies in June”

www.wsj.com/us-news/no-k...
Scenes From Across the U.S. as ‘No Kings’ Protesters Rally to Oppose Trump
Republicans have cast the scheduled events as un-American and suggest Democrats are seeking to prolong the government shutdown.
www.wsj.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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282 former DOJ officials signed a letter sounding the alarm about "this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it."

The fact that hundreds felt compelled to say this speaks volumes.
Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'
Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."
www.msnbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Live shot from downtown Portland.
Canadian reinforcements have arrived.
#PortlandStrong
September 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM